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AD/HD and Doing It Your Own Way…

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Symptoms & Diagnosis, Blog

    The quote below, which was sent to me from a client, serves a powerful reminder of the power of perseverance, as well as the need to find your own way to accomplish what is important to you. …every now and then even streams and rivers have incredibly tough obstacles between their starting points and where they want to meander (like mountains!) but over the years they just keep on chipping away and turning and finding other ingenious ways to access where they're going. So I'm not fluid like an established flowing river, but I'm slowly carving out a crooked sort of flow… Ok off to do some eroding. As the above quote suggest, by taking into consideration your areas of weakness and strength…

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Are You Really Going To Do That?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Time Management, Blog

One of my promises to my clients is that I will remind them of what is important to them when they forget. I keep track of their “larger life goals,” as well as the daily tasks that they need to accomplish in order to reach these goals. Most people want to live a balanced life, which includes having fun. Summer is a time that many people look forward to as a time to travel, explore locally and enjoy various outdoor activities. While it has been raining for almost two straight weeks here in Boston, I still know that it is summer. In fact, I also know that there are 73 days until Labor Day, which in the States is often recognized as the end of summer. So,…

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Do You Want To Know How Stop Procrastinating and Start Exercising?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

For many of us, it is the lack of motivation that is the roadblock to creating a workout routine. One step to creating that motivation is envisioning what exercise will give to you. If you started a routine tomorrow, how would your life be different six months from now? Hold on to that vision. Now that you have a vision of how your life would be better, what are some possible excuses for not executing your plan? not enough time can’t get outside to run/ can’t get to the gym too out of shape never been able to keep to a routine. If you have used the above excuses, and I think we all have, you may thinking “this is the way it is.” Making…

ADD – ADHD: Do You Want To Hook Up?
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ADD – ADHD: Do You Want To Hook Up?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Communication, Blog

No, I am not referring to dating. Though, if that is what you are looking for, by all means, go for it! Rather, I am asking you, if you want to make positive connections with people who through their actions or just their presence in your life provide you with support. It is all too easy in the hurriedness of our daily life to forget the value of nurturing our important relationships with family and friends. Though we may say that these people are important to us, the “task” of maintaining these relationships is often the first that goes by the wayside. Hmm… The last few weeks I have mentioned the tendency of those with AD/HD to get caught up in “the here and now”…

ADD – ADHD: Goals and Medication
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ADD – ADHD: Goals and Medication

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

When you have identified a goal that is important to you, you may find that you do not practice good self-care, even though you know that doing so will allow you to be more effective and efficient in working toward your goal. There are many reasons related to your ADHD that may make it challenging to plan for and follow through on taking care of yourself. It may be helpful to view the practice of self care as being part of your goal, rather than separate from it. One way to do this is to integrate self care, like taking the correct medication, into your plans for reaching your goal by making it one of the performance goals you set to reach your end goal….

ADD – ADHD: Got Goals? What’s The Plan?
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ADD – ADHD: Got Goals? What’s The Plan?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Organization, ADHD Time Management, Blog

Your ability to reach your goals is directly related to your commitment to the detail of your plan. Now, before you throw up your hands in despair, let me explain. First, of course, I know that attending to details are not likely your strong suit. I will continue to cover strategies for working with your AD/HD in order to create and focus on the details of your plan in this newsletter and in my blog, ADDed Perspective. For now, I want to point out that planning out all of the details of how you are going to reach your end goals allows you to break it down into manageable parts in order to keep moving forward. So, in creating a plan to be able to…

ADD – ADHD: What Was Your Peak Experience?
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ADD – ADHD: What Was Your Peak Experience?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Organization, Blog

The objective in this exercise is to pinpoint the values that made each experience a “peak experience.” After looking at the example below, come up with at least three of your own peak experiences. You may notice in my example that some of the values that are important to me are independence, achievement, acknowledgement and connection. I would be curious to hear what values your discovered while doing this exercise. Feel free to leave a comment below. Peak Experience: Working full time in my own business. Description of Peak Experience: I had been working for a few years while trying to start my own coaching and training business. Then one day I walked away from my full time job. I felt a sense of pride…

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ADHD and Procrastination: Eat Your Frog First!

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Time Management, Blog

I never know what is going to resonate with my readers or clients. So, when I came across this video, I thought that I would share it with you. What do you think? I often suggest doing what you resist most first. Think about how much energy you use thinking about it and not doing it. Make sense to me. Are you willing to eat your frog first?

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ADD – ADHD: Are You Headed In The Right Direction?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Organization, Blog

Whenever I work with people in reaching their goals, our first step is making sure that they are clear on their values. This is key because their values should serve as the foundation for all of their goals. When people ask for my help, it is because they want to become more effective and efficient in reaching their goals. They are ready to work hard on building their strengths and countering the challenges of their ADHD symptoms in order to do this. Together we make sure that they are heading in the right direction by looking at their values, first. To give you a taste of what I am working on, I thought that I would offer the exercise below to help you look at…

ADD – ADHD: How Are You Using Your Strengths To Get The Job Done?
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ADD – ADHD: How Are You Using Your Strengths To Get The Job Done?

ByMarla Cummins ADHD Treatment Options, Blog

As you well know, along the way there are going to be ways in which the ways that your ADHD symptoms manifest themselves can get in your way. As you are looking at what skills, habits and strategies you can develop to help you manage your areas of weakness, take time to identify your areas of strength. Identifying the areas that you are strong in will allow you to better navigate your way to your goals, as you can use your strengths to help you reach your objectives. First and foremost, concentrate on your strengths. Put yourself where your strengths can produce results… One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. ~Peter F. Drucker~ Just to be clear,…